Dissertation work “Professional Training of Future Animation Designers in
Higher Educational Institutions of China” theoretically substantiates the pedagogical
foundations, content and organization of future specialists’ professional training in
animation design in China.
It is noted that today’s digital world challenges the training of future animation
designers, creating scenarios that combine the methodological developments of the past
century with the latest design technologies. With the advent of computer technology
there has been a real revolution in animation proper and animation teaching methods.
The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the study. Analysis of the
current state of teaching design animation in China’s higher education institutions and
finding out the real conditions for the development of future designers’ professional
training of this profile shows the need for modernization of design education, which are
caused by the requirements of its final result, namely the formation of a harmonious,
versatile personality, which includes professional knowledge, abilities, skills and their
permanent updating. It is the basis of self-realization in the artistic, spiritual and cultural
sphere of society.
The introduction of numerous design methods, visual capabilities of modern
information technologies, specialized applied design programs, the creation of trendy
image projects in the professional training of future animation designers makes it
possible: to solve problems associated with the analysis and study of design activity, to
improve the artistic and technical skills, to ensure designer’s high professional and
creative level.
Analysis of a comprehensive study of the problem in question has made it
possible to determine the background and origins of the artistic imagery of the Chinese
animation school, the ways of its development and prove the uniqueness of animation
design as a phenomenon of artistic culture and the type of professional activity.
In the course of the study, the terminological apparatus of animation design and
related terms, which are key to our study, was clarified; there was provided a scientific
rationale for animation as an independent form of design; there were identified its types
and classification.
The features of professional training of future designers of animation, including
a combination of artistic and design components and characterized by the development
of special professional and creative abilities (knowledge of modern IT technologies,
design culture, the presence of creativity as an integral quality that combines motives,
creative abilities. mental processes); fine and technical skills in animation design and
IT technologies, creating conditions for the inclusion of emotional intelligence.
The essence characteristics of future animation designers’ professional training,
a conscious practice-oriented creative process, which includes mastering the sum of
special theoretical knowledge and practical skills, in-depth familiarization with
innovative animation technologies as art, the formation of personal professional
qualities are specified.
The functional readiness of future animation designers as the purpose and result
of professional training, which provides the formation of relevant competencies of
future animation designers, is theoretically substantiaed. It is noted that functional
readiness is a synthesis of interconnected structural components, combining different
artistic forms with the inclusion of imaginative thinking, traditional and experimental
techniques, and technologies (use of sound, light, visual and digital images, etc.) in the
animation work. Functional readiness for the implementation of professional activity
of the future animation designer is characterized by emotional stability, awareness of
the value of the knowledge, abilities, skills obtained in the process of professional
training in an educational institution, as well as the experience of their application in
practice; professional thinking, contributing to the development of a new competitive
animation product in the field of contemporary art; analysis of their activities.
Organizational and pedagogical conditions of professional training formation for
the future professional activity of animation designers are defined.
The possibilities of using modern learning technologies (design, heuristic,
motivational, individual, and practice-oriented (contextual learning method, case study,
simulation of professional activity, etc.), in the process of using modern technical
resources and digital applications, making it possible to modernize the creative
approaches to organized pedagogical actions.
